Or design to not adapt: Oil Spill #472, to be followed by #473

Step 1: at great expense, locate ancient energy reserves deep within the earth's crust. 

Step 2: at great expense, develop and deploy tools to access these reserves.

Step 3: ignore energy free-floating on the accessible surface of the earth: wind, tides, sunshine. 

Step 4: when catastrophes occur don't change course, only the regulations and/or rhetoric.  Ensure that efforts toward disaster prevention are tiny relative to all other efforts, including publicity.

“Coast Guard: Spill could be one of most significant in U.S. history” Houston Business Journal, Apr 27, 2010 http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2010/04/26/daily22.html

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Or it could be approached it like this: